Genome sequencing non-biting mosquitoes
High quality genome assembly of the non-biting mosquito species Wyeomyia smithii and Toxorhynchites brevipalpis
Collaborators: Christina Holzapfel (University of Oregon), William Bradshaw (University of Oregon), Patricia Aiyenuro (LSHTM)
Genomic data in mosquitoes are highly biased on vector species, forgetting non-biting species as comparison reference to understand the genetic basis of hematophagy in this clade. If only 10% of mosquito species exhibit a blood feeding behaviour, non of the non-blood feeding ones have been well sequenced at a genomic level. We thus want to use the combination of long read sequencing (PacBio) and HiC (chromatin contact sequencing) to generate reference genomes in Wyeomyia smithii and Toxorhynchites brevipalpis.